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Hermiston Dairy and Hog Show, Oct. 22, 23, 24 State Dairy Convention, October 24 and 25 T he H ermiston H erald VOL. XIII HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1919 EC. LANE WILL YET REACH M LAND RECLAMATION GOAL •Through the kindness of Project ganager Schilling we are this week tabled to give the contents of a bill ■st introduced in congress which has for its purpose the providing of ployment and rural homes for those who have sewed with the mil- try and naval forces through the eclamation of lands. This bill is to L known as the “National Soldier settlement Act.” and is almost iden- leal in its aims to the one passed by he last legislative assembly in the late of Oregon, known as the "Ore- Ln Land Settlement Act,” and which is now ready for operation Inder direction of the Land Settle- lent Commission. I The national bill provides for the stablishment of a fund in the trea- ury to be known as the "National oldier Settlement Fund,” and the kcretary of the interior is author- zed to use the fund for the acquir- ng by gift, purchase, deed in trust, r otherwise, the necessary lands for oldier Settlement Projects, and may rithdraw, utilize, and dispose of by ontract and deed public lands suit- ible for such purposes. No lands hall be acquired, however, unless he price to be paid, and the condi- ions under which they áre to be ac- juired shall be approved by a repre- tentative of the Governor of the hate in which the lands are located; in appraiser designated by the Fed irai Farm Loan Board; and the Sec- etary. Projects shall be selected with a view to the development of ne or more projects in each of the everal States in which feasible pro sects may be found. I The Secretary is authorized through such agencies as he may provide to engage in such undertakings and do F nd perform such work as in his pinion is necessary for the perman- ■nt reclamation or development of the lands of projects, and when he deems essential to place them in con- dition for use and cultivation, in- eluding the building of essential public roads. The Secretary shall, so far as possible, utilize the ser- vices of soldiers for such purposes. I The Secretary may also, through agreement with soldiers, make pro- vision for necessary improvements, but the contribution from the fund shall in no single case exceed $1,- 200, nor in excess of three quarters of the cost or value of the improve- ments. ments made under the contract for failure to comply therewith. Patents or deeds to pioject lands issued within ten years from the date of contract of sale shall contain the condition that no transfer, assign ment, mortgage, or lease made dur ing that period shall be valid with out the approval of the Secretary, and no transfer, assignment, mort gage, or lease of any right, title, or interest held under a contract of sale shall be valid at any time without the approval of the Secretary. The Secretary shall make all necesary regulations for the carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this act and for safeguarding the inter ests of the settler and of the United States, and is authorized to issue patents or deeds for the public and private lands embraced in farms. tracts, and lots within projects. The Secretary is also authorized to make short-time loans from the fund, not to exceed $800 at any one time, to a soldier settler for the pur chase of necessary live stock and equiqment, and provision shall be made for the repayment of such loans during a period not to exceed five years with interest on deferred payments at 4 per centum per an num, payable annually, computed from date of contract: Provided, That no such loans shall exceed 60 per centum of the cost of the live stock and equipment purchased. Whenever any State shall provide funds to be expended in cooperation with the United States to provide rural homes for soldiers, the Secre tary shall have authority to enter into contracts for such cooperation, and when the State shall furnish 25 per centum of the necessary funds the Secretary may authorize the State, subject to his general super vision, to carry on the subdivision of the land, improvement of farms, and the aid and direction of develop ment after settlement. The Secre tary is authorized to provide for re imbursements of funds so advanced by the State. He may also cooper ate with other agencies to the ex tent he may deem advisable and like- wise provide for reimbursement to them of funds advanced. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act the sum of $500,000,000 is hereby auth- orized to be appropriated. And in the Meantime NO. 37 BUILDING OF MCKAY CREEK RESERVOIR IS OBJECTIVE Cooperative Creamery Tomorrow the Hermiston Cream ery will change ownership, and here after it will be operated by the Coo perative Creamery Co., the stock holders of which new corporation is composed mostly of dairy farmers of the project. Something over a week ago an agreement was reached with the members of the Hermiston Creamery Co. and the above corpora tion which terminated in its pur chase by the local dairymen. It is understood there will be no change in the working force of the creamery for the present, and that the new owners have in mind the enlarge- ment of the plant within short time. COMMERCIAL CLUB DIN NER ONCE EACH WEEK A new ovation has been inaugur- ated by the Hermiston Commercial Club, and it bids fair to be both suc cessful and a great drawing card for town and country welfare. It is the holding of a dinner Tuesday of each week in one or other of the hotels where matters of importance that may come up from time to time can be brought up and quick action ta ken, thereby obviating the necessity of waiting to transact such business at the meeting of the Commercial Culb once in each month. The new idea was conceived by C. S. McNaught after attendance at a meeting and dinner of the Portland Ad Club in Portland recently. The initial meeting here has taken well. I twenty persons sitting around the banquet board at the Hermiston Ho tel Tuesday noon when time was ' called to eat. After dinner such live topics as the Union High School, Butter Creek road, Dairy and Hog I Show grounds, camping place for tourists and Boy Scouts Day wore discussed and committees appointed to look after the details in connect- ion with them. The next dinner will be held next Tuesday at the Hotel Oregon Cafe at 12:30 p. m. AR who arc members of the Commercial Club arc eligible to attend, and they can also bring an interested friend if they wish. At that time the com mittee reports will be received and new topics will no doubt come up. In His New Home Sam Rodgers moved early this week bls shoe store and repair shop from its old location on Hermiston avenue to a building on Main street that he recently purchased. In his new location he has a fine plate glass window, surounding which on the inside are three mirrors, thus making an up-to-date alcove for dis playing his goods to the public, who at the same time may glance in the mirrors from time to time and view themselves while taking observations of the goods in the display window The interior of the building is also nicely fitted up. Will Resume Operations The alfalfa meal mill of the C. s. McNaught Co. will resume opera tions again next week on the new bay crop after a shut down of nearly a month, during which time the machinery therein was given a thor ough overhauling. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE FARMERS' EXCHANGE HAS DISINCORPORATED From forty to fifty stockholders of the Farmers’ Exchange were in ... attendance at the meeting in the li- brary building last Saturday evening to discuss the affairs of the institu tion. which has been in a bad way for some time owing to lack of money to finance the business properly. Last week the Exchange went in- to the hands of a receiver, F. B. Swayze having been appointed to ad- minister its affairs and close it up. Thus the meeting was called to de- termine wether to make an effort to liquidate its obligations or disin- corporate and dissolve. After Presi dent Auseon had called the meeting to order John F. Reihl, attorney for the Exchange, read a voluminous rc- | port showing the conditions of the Institution financially prior to and at the time it went into the hands of the receiver. This report was not a very rosy one, and had much to do with the after event of a motion be- Ing made and a vote taken on the proposition of dissolution, which carried almost unanimously. As a result of the carrying of this motion the Farmers' Exchange of Hermiston is no more, but it is to be resurrected again under a new name if plans formulated at the meeting bear fruit. The new business enter prise will most likely be launched under a new name, and a committee of five appointed at the meeting is now busy on organization plans for the new store. Mrs. B. A. Newcomer left for Den- ver, Colo. Sunday, where she will spend the summer visiting her niece and family. Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Mr. and Mrs. Lou Rogers motored to Yakima last Wednesday and returned home on Sunday. Mrs. Danner, who has been visit ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. Cassady left Monday for Bend, Ore. Mrs. Frank Beddow left Tuesday evening for Ingomar and Forsythe. Mont., where she will spend a cou ple of months visiting her sisters and brother whom she has not seen for six years. Charley Williams of Portland, Ore., spent the past week visiting at the home of his niece, Mrs. Tom Haddox, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Winter left Wednes day for their home at Fresno, Calif., after spending several weeks here visiting at the home of their Aunt. Mrs. Belscamper. II. A. McKeen made a busines: trip to Ukiah on Wednesday. The Neighborhood Club will meet next Wednesday afternoon, June 3, with Mrs. Reeves at the Hooker home. Everybody come early and bring your thimble. The last meet- Ing of the Club was held at the Bloom home, Mrs. Bloom having ar ranged a very enjoyable program for the afternoon, consisting of question box, guessing contest, a few songs given by the newly organized Colum bia Quartette and readings by Mrs. Sommerer and Mrs. Bloom on cur rent topics. Everyone went home feeling that they enjoyed the after- noon immensely. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Waller of Ya klma came overland Wednesday to visit at the Phipps and Waller home Mr. Waller is a cousin of Mrs. Phipps and Jack Waller. Miss Bertha McKeen spent Wed nesday visiting the Umatilla school Mis. C. Joerndt and Mrs. Willard Cochran, sister and sister-in-law of Mrs. Jack Waller, came from Seat- tie. Wash. Monday to visit at I he Waller home. Miss Laura Phipps and Miss Elnora Briggs played at I he Recital which Mrs. Reeves gave at the Her- miston High School auditorium the first of this week. Mrs. Turner of Pasco, Wash , re The lands of projects shall be sub- Blood Poison Set In divided into farms suitable for the Marshall Newport is well again support of a family and in the dis- after having suffered from blood cretion of the Secretary into smaller poison, which he contracted in his farm workers’ tracts, dedication left foot, and which was caused from may be made for schools, churches, a small cut. The wound did not community centers, and other public cause any trouble until after the Purposes. Town sites suitable for youth had bathed in the Umatilla the purposes of the project may be river, Shortly thereafter the foot established, developed, and sold as began to swell, and a physician's ex- Provided herein. amination disclosed that blood poison Soldiers who are not the owners had set in. Mrs. H. R. Newport, or proprietors of farms or rural his mother, hastened with him to I tomes shall be eligible as purchas- Pendleton, where the poison was hrs of a farm or farm workers' tract. checked under treatment of a spec- Preference shall be given to those ialist. Who have been employed in the de- Grand Parade Purchased Warehouse velopment of such projects, and as The Decoration Day parade yes A. Leathers has purchased the Has Secured the Cage W. between applicants with a view of terday was stupenduously grand. It warehouse on the railway Henry Notz, concrete and stucco | large safeguarding the settler and the was with pride that the few remain worker of this city, is now a real es- right of way on the United States, so far as practicable, ing civil war veterans here took tate owner, having purchased one of O. W. R. & N. tracks, against loss or failure. The Secre- used under lease since entering the their place at the head of the pro lary shall make regulations general the McNaught cottages on the West hay and grain business several cession. The boys’ band under di in character, or applicable to specific Side the latter part of last week. On months ago. The structure was rection of Supt. Voelker was a pleas learning of his purchase of a home, projects, as to residence and cultiva- built quite a number of years ago ing feature; then came the Spanish- the friends of the young man are American war-veterans, followed by tion with a view of carrying out the wondering if something is not going and operated by a corporation known a procession of school girls. Last purpose of making the soldier settle- as the Umatilla Storage & Commis to happen to him soon. No doubt, ments the permanent home of the sion Co. When the company ceased came 30 autoes decorated with bunt for when a bachelor secures a cage soldier purchaser. business a couple of years ago the ing. flags and flowers, after which it is almost a sure shot the bird—or warehouse was purchased by Judge came patriotic, speaking in the Aud- The sale prices shall be fixed with bride—will soon inhabit it. Phelps, one of the stockholders in itorium. a view of repaying the total cost of All stores and other places of bus- the concern, who came from Pendle- each project, and the price fixed for To Hot Lake iness closed during the day Friday, ton Tuesday and closed the details each farm, tract, or lot shall repre- time connected with its sale to Mr Path- land services were held In the church- Henry Hitt, who for some sent as nearly as practicable its re- es, with picnics here and there, and lative and comparative selling value. has been suffering with rheumatism, a ball game In the afternoon be- Approved applicants shall at the departed the first of the week for Auto Man Poisoned tween the married and single men. time of entering into contract of Hot Lake. Oregon, to remain there Ptomaine poisoning seems to have During the day many went to the , turned to her home Sunday « for a time taking the baths and un- Purchase make a first payment of 5 spending several days visiting Mrs. been making the rounds of Hermis- j cemetery and decorated the graves Newcomer and Mrs. Felthouse. per centum of the sale price. The dergoing treatment for the ailment. The Executive Committee of balance shall be paid in amortizing Ed. Hitt, recently honorably dis- ton this week, for on Tuesday and f departed loved ones. Neighborhood Club consisting payments extending over a period to charged from oversea service in the Wednesday John Schimke was for- . Mesdames OH, Bloom, Phipps, Keller be fixed by the Secretary, not to ex-army, came from Portland the first John Day Project and Felthouse held a meeting Wed- ad | care, his illness coming aiter he h seed forty years. Sums advanced of the week and has taken a position At last the John Day I irrigation nesday afternoon at the Sommerer I home They have planned to give a for improvements shall be paid in in his brother's confectionery store, partaken of preserved fruit. district Is to be formed. It embrac picnic at the school house until his return amortizing payments extending over and will remain es thousands of acres of valuable grove on the 4th of July Club Leaders Meeting a period to be fixed by the Secretary. i from Hot Lake. arid land that will be reclaimed by | rangements will be published at a A meeting of the Boys’ and Girls’, not to exceed years. The diverting the waters of the John Day later date. Th* Grange and school picnic held The hen’s greatest profit-produc Industrial Club leaders of the west liver over It. The formation of this amortizing payments shall bear in- at Columbia i chool last Saturday terest at the rate of 4 per centum ing period is the first and second end of Umatilla county will be held district will add many more new afternoon was well attended and a annum, payable annually, com- ‘ years, and unless a hen is an espec- at the library building in Hermiston Here to Umatilla. Morrow and Gil good time was had. both from a re- it 1:30 p. m. June 2. All club lead- freshment standpoint and entertain- puted from date of contract. The •ally good breeder she should be dis liam counties. ment as well, several speakers from contracts for the sale of the farms. posed of at the end of her second era are expected to attend. H. C different parts of the county being provide for laying season and before starting to Seymour, state club leade . will be and lota shall present. Subscribe for The Herald. cancellations and forfeitures'of pay- molt. west side of the which he has That the Pendleton Commercial Association will lend united effort to bring about federal recognition of the proposed McKay creek reservoir site and work with this end of the county In securing from congress an appropriation for Its construction Is evidenced in a letter received by E. P. Dodd the first of the week from C. K. Cranston, secretary of the spec- ial committee appointed look after the matter. This committee ii composed of such well known Pendle- ton men as J. N. Burgess, G. M. Rice, E. P. Marshall, Dan P. Smythe and J. R. Raley, and their report filed with the above secretary and trans- mitted in the letter received here is as follows: “Wo the committee appointed to investigate the proposed McKay creek government reservoir for stor ing water to be lined in irrigating lands In the vicinity of Echo, Stan- Held, Hermiston and Umatilla report that we have conferred with repre sentatives of the Umatilla River Wa ter Users League and have investi- gated the project from the different reports and official Investigations so far as these were available. We re- commend that the project have the unqualified and enthusiastic endor sement of the Pendleton Association and that this association Immediate ly lend every posible support and as- sietänee to secure the adoption of the project by the government and the early construction of the contemplat ed works.” It is estimated that the building of the McKay creek reservoir would cost In the neighborhood of $2,500,- 000. It would be located a short dis tance beyond Pendleton, and the storage water from It would be avail- able for the reclamation of much valuable arid land In this part of the county. By Its construction many homekeepers would settle hereabouts on lands that Is now hold in private ownership waiting such a develop- ment to place It on the market and ilso government land that would then be thrown open to settlement. With practically the whole of the county from Pendleton west united on I he furtherance of this proposi- tion. It would seem that the govern- nient should lend a willing car to petitions and recommenda- I ions. New Mown Hav The first cutting of alfalfa Is In East full swing all over West Extension of this project n nd and on the Western Land A Irrigation Co. project, also In the Butter Creek district. Reports from the above sections are that the crop is a good one Baling will soon begin and new hay will be rolling into Hermiston. Did He Win or Lose? Geo. Strobili is a man who will always try anything once even If he does gel beat at it. The other even ing he came down town with a sack of potatoes, from the sale of which he was to purchase a few small ar- Heles for Mrs. Strohm. A store- keeper bartered him for a trade for bananas, and George took him up He claims he came out even on the deal, but Mrs. Strohm does not think so, for her better half forgot all about what she told him to get for her. American Flier Across The NG 4 Is the first flying mach- Ine have ever crossed the Atlan- tic. It completed its journey from the Stall's to Lisbon. Portugal, early this week, and is now on the last le tn England. Harry Hawker and his navigator, who had been given up as lost nt has been saved, but their air- vhip sunk at sea. Boat Service Again Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Tipple Umatilla visitors to Hermiston Wed- nesday, and they brought good with them that the steamer mona, operated by the Oregon Transportation Co., would arrive In the Seaport City of Umatilla about June 8th, on her maiden trip up th Columbia From bably go on up the Snake river to Lewiston. Mr lippie, who is man: ger of the Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. at Umatilla, has ordered a carload of Gramona’s bunkers on Itila for th above steamship cor 1- pany, and ays that the boat will make regular runs after she back from her maiden trip